Cas Mudde is the Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at the University of Georgia (USA) and a Professor II at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo (Norway). Born in the Netherlands, where he got his M.A. and Ph.D. at Leiden University, his research addresses the question: how can liberal democracies defend themselves against political challenges without undermining their core values? His recent publications include The Far Right in America (Routledge, 2018), The Populist Radical Right: A Reader (Routledge, 2017), SYRIZA: The Failure of the Populist Promise (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), (with Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser) Populism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017), and On Extremism and Democracy in Europe (Routledge, 2016). He is currently finishing The Far Right Today (Polity, 2019), is a columnist for the GuardianUS and Hope not Hate, and tweets at @casmudde.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?On extremism and democracy in Europe: three years laterThis introduction to the updated Greek edition of the 2016 book brings to its thought-provoking chronological...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Polish boomerang: how Warsaw’s adoption of the 'Budapest Model' could threaten the original in HungaryThe new Polish government seems keen on following the authoritarian 'Budapest model' promulgated by illiberal...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?2015 and the struggle for Europe’s core2015 was the year that everyone could see that the European emperor is not (not any longer) wearing clothes. Worse,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?European democracy after ParisIronically, as political distrust and dissatisfaction are at all-time highs in Europe, the vast majority of people...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Overcoming the European refugee crisisWith no sign of the refugee crisis slowing down, here are five key principles for action which are both more humane...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?As Europe looks fearfully outside, its liberal democracy is under attack from withinLiberal democracy in Europe is under threat once more. This time, however, the threat comes from within the European...